Jake and I watched the series finale last night. I was mostly satisfied with the ending (but at this point, I’m happy any time a show ends and the main characters are not sitting in a diner while a Journey song plays). This final season, on the other hand, was a bit much to swallow. It definitely had some interesting moments, but the whole premise for the season was off. Overall, though, I really enjoyed this show.
My rating: 4/5
We’ve been prepping for the holiday ever since Black Friday. I managed to do 99% of my shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend and figured out the rest. We usually don’t decorate and put the tree up until mid-December, but Jake wanted to do that earlier this year, so we did just that. I finished making the Christmas cards and am in the process of mailing them this week. I still need to wrap gifts (which I will be doing this coming weekend) and make some treats. I’m only doing people treats this year (and not many at that). Sorry, dogs (I’ll make it up to you later). We’re having Christmas dinner here, but there’s not a lot I can do for that until closer to the day. I do have the menu figured out. I hope I’m not missing anything. If I am, I’m sure it will become apparent closer to the day.
I’ve been wanting to get out of the rental business for a little while now. But, since we have continually had renters since we bought our rental house in 2011, getting out hadn’t been an option–until now. Our most recent tenant moved out at the end of last month. This has given me time to sow the seeds of my discontent with Brian. After spending yesterday afternoon painting the living room of the rental (and my argument was helped in a small part by the fact that the toilet wouldn’t stop running when we were there and, when he tried to use the shut off valve, it started leaking all over the place. now the water to the whole house is off…), I think I finally have him convinced.
On one hand, having the extra income is great. On the other hand, our main source of income keeps us quite busy and it would be nice to be able to relax on the weekends instead of having to do improvement projects at yet another property (in addition to our house, we also own our office building, so we’re already maintaining two properties).
This book was Stephen King’s take on the classic Frankenstein story. It was much more original than Dean Koontz’s take. At any rate, I really, really enjoyed the first part of the book (the part where the main character is growing up–no one does that like Stephen King), but after the main character became an adult, things got a little slow. And, I didn’t care much for the twist at the end. It was a quick read, though.
My rating: 3.5/5
We went to IUP’s Kovalchick Complex last night to see the MythBusters Behind the Myths Tour. It was quite entertaining. While they did not exactly bust any myths, they did talk about a lot of things from the show and had a bunch of audience participation opportunities. It was a fun night and definitely worth seeing for fans of the show.